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Article written by Alvaro Fernandez for the May-June 2009 Issue of AgingToday, the Bimonthly Newspaper of the American Society on Aging:

"Public libraries have long offered the public more than books. And now, recent demographic and scientific trends are converging to fundamentally transform the role of libraries in our culture.

Libraries are taking on a new mission: to help promote cognitive health in their communities, potentially using the concept of brain fitness as a framework for library-based lifelong learning, civic engagement, gaming and health promotion initiatives.

... Two new trends are emerging around our public libraries. Libraries now are focusing more on health and wellness promotion in order to engage older adults, and cognitive health, or brain
fitness, is becoming a significant component of that promotion."

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Reprinted with permission from Aging Today 30:3, May-June 2009. Copyright © 2009. American Society on Aging, San Francisco, California. www.asaging.org.